Happy New Year! Today was great fun--Sister Ferrington, the stake seminary/institute supervisor we work with, invited the missionaries to join her family for a Southern New Year's Day lunch. It was so good! We had rice and gravy, cabbage fried with bacon, fried chicken, black-eyed peas, and cornbread. The cabbage, black-eyed peas, and cornbread represent prosperity, luck, and health for the new year. For dessert there were two southern favorites--coconut cake and pecan pie. Also a delicious frappe to drink. Sister F is a good cook and the food was wonderful.
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| Traditional Southern New Year's Day meal |
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| More of the family with the cake, pie, and frappe |
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| Bella the whippet in her LSU sweater |
Tomorrow morning our plane leaves at 6 am. We're going to Ohio to be with grandson Sebastian as he receives the Aaronic Priesthood. We missed his baptism while on our last mission, but thought we had timed this mission well, since Seb doesn't turn 12 until August (after we're home). However, recent changes have young men receive the priesthood in the January of the year they turn 12. Rules for senior couples have relaxed a bit, so we're able to make a quick trip for this important event.
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